This time last summer, I was busy fussing over my nascent garden, perfecting my sourdough starter, and indulging in my personal Grey’s Anatomy Retrospective, all the way back to when a boy met a girl in a bar. (I see your pandemic coping cliches, and I raise you 362 episodes of a TV drama, at […]
On Stress and Values
The tightness at the back of my neck used to start when I was at my desk. Now it’s there when I wake up. My over-thinking, second-guessing, and doom-scrolling have skyrocketed. I’m more scattered, tense, weepy, and way more tired than, well, ever. I. Am. So. Stressed. You, too? Massive uncertainty, that’s unlikely to let […]
An Uprising of Kindness
I was working at my desk, frustrated by a tedious project, when I thought I heard a tap at my front door. I ignored it. It happened again. I ignored it. Three more times. On the way to the mailbox a while later, I almost tripped over an bundle of carrots on the front step, […]
Resolve to Resolve
So, how’re those New Years Resolutions coming along? You’re kidding, right? I survived 10 months of a pandemic that’s taken the lives of 350,000 Americans, spend most waking hours on Zoom, lose track of what day it is, and can’t remember when I showered last. Isn’t that enough? I get it. We’re living amid epic […]